Kick and Claw Your Way Through X2: Wolverine’s Revenge
He’s short and hairy. He keeps his hair in a funky style. He loves to smoke cigars and drink beer. He tends to have a sour disposition.
This is your chance to play the squat, hirsute hero equipped with razor-sharp claws that pop out of his hands, a nearly-indestructible, adamantium-laced skeleton, and heightened senses and healing abilities. His past is shrouded in mystery, but this much is known: Wolverine received his enhanced skeleton and claws through experiments performed on him at Canada’s Department H.
The scientists who led the project, known as Weapon X, wanted to create an uber-soldier, but instead they created a beast who escaped at his first opportunity, preferring to live in the wilderness. Professor Charles Xavier brought Wolverine into the X-Men team and helped him access his human side and suppress his animal instincts, except for times when he needs them to defeat enemies.
As the game begins, Wolverine suffers from a deadly virus that attacks his nervous system. If he can’t find an antidote in 48 hours, his vaunted healing ability — which has made him age so slowly that he was actually born over 100 years ago — will vanish and he will quickly die. And he will have to infiltrate the old Weapon X facilities to uncover it.
No Rocket Launchers Here
Wolverine has almost always made his way through adventures with no external weapons, and this game is no different. You must rely on his retractable claws, as well as his heightened senses and his ability to go into a feral rage, to make your way through the adventure. He earns dog tags as he defeats opponents; with enough of them, he can take his combat skills to the next level and use new moves to finish off his enemies.
His heightened senses allow him to pick up a living being’s scent trail, pick up such little details as trip wires and other hidden traps, move silently, and detect heat sources. When his feral rage meter hits its limit — you fill it by defeating enemies, but it depletes if you don’t see any action for a while — you can unleash it and watch Wolverine’s lethal claws do more damage than normal.
Of course, all his abilities have drawbacks: he can’t heal, sneak around, or operate consoles while in a feral rage state, and enemies can still see him if he wanders into their visual range while in stealth mode. In addition, his claws keep him from healing while they’re out, and enemies who employ electrical attacks can use the adamantium blades as conductors to shock him.
Hidden Stuff
Wolverine’s Revenge also features a variety of hidden bonuses: six comic book covers that unlock special costumes, such as Wolverine’s original orange-and-brown suit; special challenges that become unlocked when you finish the game; and 16 Cerebro files scattered around the levels that contain character biographies narrated by Patrick Stewart, who played Professor X in the movies (Cerebro is a device he uses to locate other mutants).
Speaking of celebrity cameos, astute gamers will notice that Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, supplies Wolverine’s voice. While he may seem like an odd choice, he’s actually an accomplished voice-over actor who can make his vocal cords fit a wide range of sounds.
Luckily, Wolverine never whines about going “to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters” during the game.
Call of the Wild. Wolverine vs. Sabretooth. You decide who wins.
SNIKT! Use Wolverine’s adamantium claws to dice up your foes.
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System Requirements:
 | Mac OS X version 10.2.6 or higher |
| 733MHz PowerPC G4 processor (Power Mac G4, iMac G4, eMac, or PowerBook G4) |
| 256MB of RAM |
| 32MB AGP video card (ATI Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce 2 series card or higher) |
| 1.7GB free hard drive space |
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| Freedom Force |
Given the success of the first two feature films, it’s hard to believe that Marvel Comics almost cancelled their X-Men series in the mid-70s. Writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum were given an opportunity to breathe new life into the comic book, though, and they responded in 1975 by introducing new characters who helped revive sales. Soon the comic book became one of Marvel’s best-sellers, producing a plethora of spin-off series.
